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noun / adjective / adverb

coach

A passenger vehicle or compartment for shared travel.

The coach carries passengers between the two cities every morning.

Etymology

Hungarian kocsi meant of Kocs, a town associated with carriage making. The vehicle’s place-based name spread to passenger coaches and later to compartments or classes of shared travel.

More examples

  • A pair of horses pulls the coach through town.
  • Our seats are in the train's last coach.
  • We fly coach to keep our travel costs down.
  • Coach seats cost less than first-class seats on this flight.

Forms

coach · coaches

coachman noun — A person who drives a horse-drawn coach.

Similar words

bus
A broader term for road vehicles carrying many passengers.
carriage
Specifically a horse-drawn passenger vehicle in ordinary American usage.